Driver Power Failure

Driver Power Failure

Guys,
I need your help
I'm suffering from BSOD every now and then especially when I enable optimus in my bios.
The bsod is Driver_POWER_FAILURE
I've attached the dump files with my system specs
I appreciate if someone tell me what is causing the problem
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As you can see, this driver above is running scared and won't even tell me its location on the machine, which is highly unusual in and of itself. Search your computer for it or look in C:\Windows\System32\drivers for it. When found, rename it to PBADRV.BAK then reboot.

BSOD Issue Solved so far

Thank you MasterChief,
I told Dell Technicians about your findings. Based on your analysis, they updated my security control vault firmware and handled the PBADRV faulty file by reinstalling their software which generated this file. So far, no BSODs related to powerfailure.
Many thanks for your support.
If BSODs appeared again ,I'll let you know (hopefully no).

Originally Posted by MasterChief

Hi,

The crash dump is blaming your NVIDIA video driver, but it is not that simple and that is not the actual cause. So, we ponder.

As you can see, this driver above is running scared and won't even tell me its location on the machine, which is highly unusual in and of itself. Search your computer for it or look in C:\Windows\System32\drivers for it. When found, rename it to PBADRV.BAK then reboot.

BSOD Again

Dear Masterchief,
Today I suffered from BSOD again and I don't know who is the culprit now.
I've attached my memory dump, and I appreciate if you can analyze my memory dump again and tell me which
driver / device is the culprit now.
N.B: Nvidia drivers and intel drivers are latest in my laptop and I've checked them.
Best Regards,

Can you recheck the latest attached memory dumps pls

If you're unable to figure out how to update the drivers, you can uninstall Creative software instead and remove hardware from machine.

Actually updating is necessary if you don't want to remove it.

Best of luck.

Recently I suffered from BSOD power failure screen again.Can you recheck the latest attached memory dumps pls and tell me if the Web Cam central is still the culprit , as I updated my PC to the latest win8.1 update1 April 2014 update. VGA drivers are up to date.
Thank you

Please update these older drivers. Links are included to assist in looking up the source of the drivers. If unable to find an update, please remove (un-install) the program responsible for that driver. DO NOT manually delete/rename the driver as it may make the system unbootable! :

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Please update these older drivers. Links are included to assist in looking up the source of the drivers. If unable to find an update, please remove (un-install) the program responsible for that driver. DO NOT manually delete/rename the driver as it may make the system unbootable! :

Thank you for your post usasma , I have just uninstalled the Dell Web Cam central which contains the culprit sys file you mentioned, I'll keep you posted if this solved my problem.
Many thanks Once again

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